Snails, mussels, squids -- as different as they may look, they do have something in common: they all belong to the phylum Mollusca, also called mollusks. Researchers have now carried out research into ...

An international team of experts has resolved long-standing questions about the evolutionary history of mollusks, one of the most diverse zoological groups on the planet. The study, published in ...

At the end of the semester in the advanced invertebrate zoology course I took, my rather dry, boring professor made the only joke I remember him ever uttering. We had just finished the phylum ...

In the April, 2004, issue of BioScience, a team of 16 experts from around the world report on the diversity and plight of what may be the world's most endangered group of animals – nonmarine mollusks ...

Beachcombers know that seashells appear in an endless array of colors and shapes, and researchers have just discovered that this variation extends to the molecular level. In fact, each shell is as ...